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... including: here/there hence/thence now/then thus In modern English the pairs of demonstratives (i.e. this/that, these/those) express the notion of being either closer to, or further from the writer/speaker. ... The Romans located historical events in relation to the founding of their city in 7 53 BC. They gave years with the suffix AUC, which to them meant ab urbe condita “...

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... normally take plural verbs. See further under agreement section 4. totaled or totalled Whether to double or not to double the l is discussed at -l/-ll toto See in toto. tour de force This French phrase ... main title, and option (a) for the subtitle, as in: The Life and Times of the English Language: the marvellous history of the English tongue The use of option (a) for...

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... are set together as one, usually because the second is strongly related to the first. See for example: The news of the proposed devaluation got out; there was an immediate run on the stock exchange. In ... taxi, and the visitors did the same. Note that there are no overtones of commercialese or legalese in such usage; same is in fact one of the cohesive devices of standard...

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... passed. past tense Most English verbs show whether the action they refer to happened in the past, rather than the present or some indefinite time in the future. This is the point of difference ... a mistake to bypass the standard English plural for a word that was coined in English anyway. Among the citations in the Australian National Dictionary (1988) there is onl...

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... aloud”: Maybe they’ll arrive tomorrow. Still it appears often enough in written English, and thereare 106 instances of maybe to 33 5 of perhaps in the Australian ACE corpus—a ratio of approximately 1 :3. The affinity ... about them for readers in other parts of the English- speaking world would do well to use immigrant rather than migrant, to ensure being properly understood....

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... the sixteenth century on, centuries before the first reference to the jaw’s harp in Grove’s Dictionary. The Jewish element is built into the English name for the instrument as well as one of the ... international English The idea of “international English has a lot of appeal to publishers and others who seek to market English language products to the world at...

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... communicating than in overwhelming their readers with long words. Whether they aim to impress or to cover their tracks, what they offer the reader is verbal fog: The departmental reaction to the municipal government ... as the main verb: They’re going to go to the races. Another sign that going to has made it as an auxiliary is the fact that the larger dictionaries l...

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... “and the rest” or “and the others”, implying a known set of items which might be used to complete the list preceding it. It relieves the writer of the need to list them, and calls on the reader to ... by about 4:1. The Australian Oxford (2004) 291 ellipsis a) They took glasses from the bar and [they took] knives and forks from the tables. b) They said [that] no-one w...

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... parenthesis, the point to check is whether the parenthesis forms part or all of the sentence. If it is the whole sentence, the full stop goes inside; if the parenthesis is only the last part of the ... in the US—and the name of the building which houses the US Congress—is the Capitol (with an upper case initial). It was the name of the temple of Jupiter in anci...

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... belong to this group. The group of absolute adjectives is in fact very 11 Preface to The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage Since the first publication of The Cambridge Australian English ... boldfaced to draw attention to strategic points. Words related to the headword(s) or derived from them are set in italics, as are all examples. xv The Cam...

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